Iryna Shuvalova ( uk, Ірина Леонідівна Шувалова; born 1986) is a
Ukrainian
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poet, translator and scholar.
Early life and education
Iryna Shuvalova was born in 1986 in
Kyiv.
She studied at the
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
In 2014, she completed
MA in
Comparative literature at
Dartmouth College, followed by a PhD in 2020 in
Slavonic studies
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at the
University of Cambridge on the topic of songs of the
Russo-Ukrainian War created by affected local communities.
At Dartmouth she was a recipient of a
Fulbright scholarship
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, while at Cambridge she gained a
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
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and taught Ukrainian.
Career
Shuvalova debuted in 2011 with her poetry book ''Ran''.
Her fourth book, the bilingual publication ''Pray to the Empty Wells'' was strongly influenced by Ukrainian folk culture and nature.
Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into nine languages.
In 2019, she was a coeditor of ''120 pages of "Sodom"'': the first anthology of
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published in Ukraine.
She works as a translator from English into Ukrainian
and from Ukrainian and Russian into English.
Shuvalova has translated, among others, ''
Life of Pi
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'' by
Yann Martel (2016) and ''
Milk and Honey'' by
Rupi Kaur (2019).
Her translations into English have appeared in ''
Modern Poetry in Translation
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'' and ''
Words Without Borders''.
Shuvalova has received a number of awards for her own work as well as translation, including the first prize in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition in 2010
and the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize
for translating Sergei Chegra's poem ''The Prayer of the Touch''.
Shuvalova is a member of
PEN Ukraine
PEN Ukraine is a Ukrainian non-governmental organization established to protect freedom of speech and authors' rights, promote literature and international cultural cooperation. It is part of the network of national centers of the International P ...
and in 2017 became an expert on Ukrainian translations for the
English PEN.
Publications
* ''Ran''
* ''Os''
* ''Az''
* ''Pray to the Empty Wells'' - bilingual publication
* ''Stoneorchardwoods''
References
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Ukrainian translators
Ukrainian women poets
21st-century Ukrainian women writers
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Dartmouth College alumni
Poets from Kyiv
1986 births
Living people